Chapter Summaries

The old woman forced Miao Qiuyun to choose who would die by revealing that she was pregnant and threatening the child, while Lu Feng finished writing his last letters. After reading his letters to Tang Yuan and Ye Fan, the old woman was moved by the friends’ willingness to sacrifice for one another.

• The old woman revealed Miao Qiuyun’s pregnancy and threatened the child until Miao Qiuyun chose Ye Fan, Lu Feng, and Ruo Shui to die, then offered herself instead if Ruo Shui was spared.
• Miao Qiuyun asked the old woman to arrange for her child to be cared for and to conceal the child’s origins.
• Lu Feng finished letters for Tang Yuan, Ye Fan, and Ruo Shui, then entrusted them and his storage artifact to the old woman.
• The old woman read Lu Feng’s letters and found their accounts consistent with what she had learned from Ye Fan, Tang Yuan, and the others.
• The old woman was moved by Lu Feng’s words about his friends and recalled her own past friendships.

In hiding, Lian Hesheng discovered that Miao Qiuyun was carrying Lian Ankang’s child and pleaded with Miao Qiuping to spare the bloodline, leaving the decision to Qiuyun. At the Heaven Rain Clan, Qiuyun reunited with Tang Yuan and Jiang Ruoyun, learned Ye Fan had survived, and worried about whether she and the others could leave.

• The Ancestral Tablet showed a new bloodline beneath Lian Ankang’s essence blood, and Lian Hesheng realized the Lian Clan had an heir.
• Lian Hesheng begged Miao Qiuping to spare the child, but Miao Qiuping said the decision depended on Miao Qiuyun’s wishes.
• Miao Qiuyun was brought to a room with Tang Yuan and Jiang Ruoyun and explained what had happened to her.
• Tang Yuan told Miao Qiuyun that Ye Fan was in the Rebirth Pool and Lu Feng was writing letters, while Ruo Shui had helped them survive.
• Miao Qiuyun asked about Ruo Shui’s condition and whether they could leave, and Tang Yuan grew grave at the question.

Lu Feng was brought before the Heaven Rain Clan’s Great Priestess and offered a chance to join the clan by refining the Northern Essence Water. He learned that doing so could save his Soul Plate and still leave enough power to improve Ruo Shui’s physique, but he remained wary of the clan’s motives and restrictions.

• Lu Feng left the Stone Chamber and rode a vine-lifted platform through the Heaven Rain Clan’s mountain dwelling while his Soul Plate remained stabilized by the Great Priestess’s aura.
• The Great Priestess appeared before Lu Feng and seven Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage elders, then asked him to join the clan.
• The Great Priestess explained that refining the Northern Essence Water could improve Ruo Shui’s physique much faster than the clan’s alternative method.
• Lu Feng confirmed that enough Northern Essence Water would remain to help Ruo Shui after he refined it, and he quietly put away his farewell letter to Jiang Ruoyun.
• The Great Priestess warned Lu Feng that his Soul Plate would shatter if her aura dissipated before he refined the mystic energy, and Lu Feng asked about the terms of joining and the clan’s purpose.
• Lu Feng wondered whether Lan Tianyiqi had staged his own death to let Lu Feng leave without attachments.

The Great Priestess recounted how the Heaven Rain Clan and the Ancient Flame Clan split over the Yin Yang Divine Tree and fought for generations, until the Ancient Flame Clan’s reckless use of the Heaven Yang Camphor Tree caused catastrophe. She revealed that the clan’s final release of the tree’s power created the yellow-sand wasteland of the Boundless Underworld Sea.

• The Great Priestess told Lu Feng that the Heaven Rain Clan and Ancient Flame Clan began as one tribe before dividing over the Heaven Yin and Heaven Yang Camphor Tree saplings.
• The Ancient Flame Clan’s Five Elements Pure Fire Body drained and eventually destroyed its divine tree’s power, while the Heaven Rain Clan relied on its Saintess, Northern Essence Water, and protective array to resist.
• The Heaven Rain Clan’s Saintess disappeared after a caravan passed through Ancient Flame Clan territory, leaving the clan unable to prevent its enemies from producing another Five Elements Pure Fire Body.
• The Heaven Rain Clan’s predecessors secretly injected Heaven Yin aura into the enemy’s Five Elements Pure Fire Body, but the Ancient Flame Clan retaliated by uprooting the Heaven Yang Camphor Tree and exhausting its remaining power.
• The Heaven Rain Clan sealed itself and the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree beneath Arm Cloud Mountain, while the uncontrolled Heaven Yang Camphor Tree power devastated the Ancient Flame Clan and turned the region into the yellow-sand Boundless Underworld Sea.

Lu Feng learned that the Heaven Rain Clan was trapped in its hidden home and faced extinction unless it could restore control of its Clan Protection Array. He agreed to join as its Holy Son, received the Yin Soul Curse Seal, and was led toward the forbidden ground to refine Northern Essence Water and study the clan’s techniques.

• The Great Priestess and an old woman explained that the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree and Clan Protection Array prevented the Heaven Rain Clan from leaving, while the clan’s dwindling population depended on outsiders to bear children.
• The Great Priestess said only someone with a Five Elements Pure Water Body could control the array, and offered Lu Feng the title of Holy Son in exchange for returning every three years to help monitor it.
• Lu Feng confirmed that his friends and relatives, including Ruo Shui, could leave freely once they recovered, and the Great Priestess eased the pressure on his Soul Plate with blue light.
• Lu Feng accepted the clan’s soul-aura staff ritual and received the Yin Soul Curse Seal, which let the clan locate him through its resonance.
• An old woman led Lu Feng toward the forbidden ground, where the clan’s ancestral techniques had been inscribed on stone walls.

Lu Feng reached the Rebirth Pool, where Ye Fan was recovering, but a disturbance from the Divine Tree led the priestesses to open the forbidden grounds. There, they sensed that a Saint Ruler had fallen, and Lu Feng worried that Qing Xue might be in danger.

• Lu Feng found Ye Fan soaking in the Rebirth Pool’s medicinal liquid and scratched his itchy neck while Ye Fan explained that the Great Priestess had told him Lu Feng would come to refine the Northern Essence Water.
• The Rebirth Pool began churning, and a priestess announced that something had happened to the Divine Tree, prompting her and the other priestesses to hurry to the forbidden grounds with Lu Feng.
• The three priestesses used their tokens and coordinated cultivation techniques to open the Stone Gate, revealing writhing Divine Tree vines and a living mass of Northern Essence Water.
• The leading priestess declared that the Divine Tree’s Lament meant a Saint Position had fallen and a Saint Ruler had perished; another priestess saw an opportunity for their clan to rise again.
• Lu Feng wondered whether the fallen Saint Ruler was the Blood Clan’s Young Master, then feared Qing Xue might be the one in danger and asked the priestesses whether the Divine Tree had revealed the person’s identity or direction.

Lu Feng tried to move and refine the dangerous Northern Essence Water, triggering its power and leaving him trapped among the Divine Tree’s vines. Meanwhile, Ruo Shui admitted she was afraid to face Lu Feng and Sister Yun after the Great Priestess had deceived her.

• The priestesses told Lu Feng that the Divine Tree had sensed a Saint Ruler’s death and warned that the world outside might soon change.
• Lu Feng attempted to move the Northern Essence Water into a Jade Basin, using Wood Element Qi to draw it inside, but the water passed through the basin and released overwhelming Water Essence Qi.
• Lu Feng began absorbing the Water Essence Qi despite its freezing pain, while the two priestesses were suffocated and then driven from the forbidden grounds by the Divine Tree’s branches.
• The priestesses saw vines coil around Lu Feng and rushed to report the incident to the Great Priestess.
• The Great Priestess asked Ruo Shui whether she still had any wishes, and Ruo Shui said she lacked the courage to face Lu Feng or Sister Yun after being deceived.

Lu Feng was trapped by the Divine Tree while refining Northern Essence Water, but the tree helped him successfully condense its Source Aura and strengthen his Soul Plate and body. As its power began driving him toward the Earth Soul Realm, Lu Feng realized he might be forced to break through before he was ready.

• A priestess told the Great Priestess and Ruo Shui that the Divine Tree had bound and begun consuming Lu Feng, and the group found the forbidden grounds sealed shut.
• At the Rebirth Pool, Ye Fan learned that Ruo Shui's poison had been cured and her Fire Essence Qi stabilized, then heard that Lu Feng was trapped inside the forbidden grounds.
• Ruo Shui asked Ye Fan not to summon Jiang Ruoyun or Tang Yuan, fearing they would panic or worry helplessly about Lu Feng.
• Inside the Vine Ball, the Divine Tree sent power into Lu Feng, quieted the other profound qi, and helped him condense Northern Essence Water onto his Soul Plate.
• Lu Feng's five types of profound qi became balanced, his Soul Plate healed, and his body grew stronger as the Divine Tree's power continued to flow into him.
• Lu Feng realized the Divine Tree's power was winding toward his Soul Plate to push him into the Earth Soul Realm.

Lu Feng discovered that the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree had bestowed supreme Yin essence on him and entrusted him with a jade-green leaf containing part of its source power, along with hopes of helping the Heaven Rain Clan escape its underground home. Outside the forbidden ground, Ye Fan learned that the clan had secretly used Lu Feng’s essence to conceive a child with Ruo Shui, and Ruo Shui protested that she had never been told what the arrangement involved.

• Lu Feng sensed that the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree had transformed his Soul Plate with supreme Yin essence, making future Earth Soul Realm cultivation far more difficult.
• With the tree’s help, Lu Feng perceived how its roots and branches formed the Heaven Rain Clan’s protection array throughout Arm Cloud Mountain and realized he could open a transmission gap using Divine Tree Power and Water Essence Qi.
• The Heaven Yin Camphor Tree conveyed its hopes for the clan to Lu Feng and gave him a jade-green leaf filled with a portion of its source power, leaving its branches weakened.
• Outside the forbidden ground, Ruo Shui begged the Great Priestess to open the gate, while Ye Fan noticed how deeply she cared for Lu Feng.
• The Great Priestess revealed that Ruo Shui was carrying a child conceived using a thread of Lu Feng’s Yang essence and inner vitality, prompting Ye Fan to accuse the priests of harming Lu Feng.
• Ruo Shui objected that the Great Priestess had hidden how the clan intended to preserve the Five Elements Pure Water Body, and the priests reminded her that she had agreed to a method involving sharing a room with a man.

Lu Feng studied the Heaven Rain Clan’s techniques in the forbidden grounds and tested the Yin Soul Curse Seal on the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree. He confirmed that the technique’s brief soul lock gave him the perception he sought, while spiritual rain began falling across the clan as the Northern Essence Water weakened.

• The Divine Tree released spiritual rain throughout the Heaven Rain Clan, and Ruo Shui sensed that the Northern Essence Water had weakened as Lu Feng refined it.
• The Heaven Yin Camphor Tree cleared the rock walls for Lu Feng, who studied the clan’s Water Essence Qi techniques and memorized several useful methods.
• Lu Feng found the Yin Soul Curse Seal and learned that it could let the clan’s priests strike a cursed target from afar through the Clan Protection Array.
• Lu Feng practiced the curse seal on a branch of the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree, first having his soul lock detected and dispelled.
• Lu Feng concealed his soul power more effectively, briefly marked the branch, and confirmed that the Yin Soul Curse Seal gave him the perception he wanted.

After refining Northern Essence Water, Lu Feng learned the clan’s formation could be opened only at a cost to the Divine Tree, and he chose not to leave before his companions recovered. He used Medicine Valley’s Grand Evolution Art to strengthen Ye Fan’s spiritual energy, though the effort exhausted him.

• Lu Feng emerged from the forbidden grounds after refining Northern Essence Water and revealed that he could control the clan’s grand formation, which burdened the Divine Tree when opened.
• The priests explained that the Divine Tree’s fallen branches could reduce that burden, but the next Resting Cycle would not come for a little over ten days.
• Lu Feng decided to stay because Ruo Shui, Ye Fan, Tang Yuan, and the others had not recovered, then visited Ye Fan, who discovered the Undead Gu feared Lu Feng’s completed five-qi aura.
• Ye Fan taught Lu Feng Medicine Valley’s Grand Evolution Art so Lu Feng could improve the quality of Ye Fan’s spiritual energy and help him recover.
• Lu Feng maintained the Grand Evolution Ring for nearly half an hour, greatly strengthening Ye Fan’s aura and Five Elements origin qi before exhaustion forced him to stop.

Lu Feng learned that Ruo Shui had entered seclusion for one to three years to recover her balance of Five Elements Pure Water and Fire, and he reunited with Jiang Ruoyun and Tang Yuan at the Cloud Milk Stone House. He left reassured about his friends’ recovery but unaware that Ye Fan had concealed Ruo Shui’s real reason for choosing seclusion.

• Ye Fan told Lu Feng that Ruo Shui needed years of treatment to absorb the Five Elements Pure Fire within her and might eventually attain the Five Elements Ultimate Body.
• Ye Fan said Ruo Shui had entered seclusion at Water Rhythm Terrace and asked Lu Feng and the others to return in three years; the Heaven Priest explained that Lu Feng could not visit her there.
• After Lu Feng left, Ye Fan admitted that Ruo Shui had begged him through tears to give Lu Feng that explanation.
• The Heaven Priest took Lu Feng to the Cloud Milk Stone House, where Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, and Miao Qiuyun were cultivating.
• Jiang Ruoyun and Tang Yuan joined Lu Feng in the outer hall, where they celebrated his refinement of Northern Essence Water and described how its rain helped Tang Yuan recover.
• Lu Feng noticed that Jiang Ruoyun’s aura had grown powerful but imbalanced toward yin, and she reassured him that she could correct it by absorbing yang energy.

Lu Feng and his companions learned that the Healing Node would soon arrive, but Tang Yuan discovered that Ruo Shui was pregnant with Lu Feng’s child after the Heaven Rain Clan deceived her and secretly used Lu Feng’s Yang Essence Qi. Ye Fan persuaded Tang Yuan to keep the truth from Lu Feng for now and help prepare him and Jiang Ruoyun to accept Ruo Shui later.

• The Profound Priest told Lu Feng and the others that the divine tree was shedding leaves and the Healing Node would arrive within days, prompting plans to return home.
• Tang Yuan overheard Ye Fan discussing Ruo Shui’s pregnancy and attacked him, mistakenly believing Ye Fan had fathered the child.
• Ye Fan explained that the Heaven Rain Clan had deceived Ruo Shui into preserving her Five Elements Pure Water Body, then used Lu Feng’s Yang Essence Qi to make her pregnant.
• Tang Yuan urged Ye Fan to tell Lu Feng, but Ye Fan said Ruo Shui had asked him to keep it secret and warned that revealing it abruptly could hurt Lu Feng, Jiang Ruoyun, and Ruo Shui.
• Ye Fan proposed gradually preparing Lu Feng and Jiang Ruoyun to accept Ruo Shui, and Tang Yuan reluctantly agreed to keep the secret and help.

Lu Feng and his companions left the Heaven Rain Clan through the Teleportation Array, leaving Ruo Shui behind in tears. After returning to Arm Cloud Mountain, they discovered Lu Feng’s merged five qi drew in and refined spiritual energy, then fought off a Black Hawk with Ye Fan poisoning it and Lu Feng destroying it with an Exploding Ball.

• The Heaven Priest gave Lu Feng’s group Divine Tree leaves to conceal their auras and explained how to activate the Teleportation Array.
• Lu Feng used his refined Water Essence Qi and the Divine Tree Power to open the array, and he and his companions departed while Ruo Shui watched and wept.
• Ruo Shui regained her composure and resolved to be selfish, asking her brother in her thoughts to forgive her.
• The group reappeared on Arm Cloud Mountain’s stone palm and climbed onto the giant rocks before the returning sand could bury them.
• Lu Feng’s merged five qi drew in and autonomously refined the surrounding spiritual energy, astonishing his companions.
• A Black Hawk attacked, but Ye Fan’s poisoned silver needle fatally wounded it and Lu Feng blasted its body to powder with an Exploding Ball.

Tang Yuan decided to seek Yi Huo Yang Dou’s Beast Pill so he could raise his future strength, and Lu Feng, Ye Fan, and the others tracked the wounded beast to a sea of fire formed from the Heaven Yang Camphor Tree’s source power. The group chose to wait for Yi Huo Yang Dou to break through before attacking, then discovered signs that the Soul Control Clan woman had fought there earlier.

• Tang Yuan announced that he wanted to find Yi Huo Yang Dou, and Lu Feng and Ye Fan agreed to help him pursue the beast.
• The group followed Yi Huo Yang Dou’s traces and found a recently devoured beast whose remains carried a strangely pure Yang aura.
• Lu Feng, Ye Fan, and Tang Yuan found Yi Huo Yang Dou absorbing energy from a vast fiery lake formed by the Heaven Yang Camphor Tree’s source power.
• Tang Yuan chose to wait for Yi Huo Yang Dou to break through, accepting the risk that its Beast Pill might be destroyed so he could reach a higher future limit.
• As Lu Feng prepared to set up an array, the group found charred sand and lingering soul power left by the Soul Control Clan woman, and wondered why she had come there.

Lu Feng completed a concealed array around the Yi Huo Yang Dou and joined Ye Fan and Tang Yuan in attacking as the beast broke through. The array trapped the beast and empowered Lu Feng’s flaming sword strike, while Miao Qiuyun struggled to identify the complex formation.

• Lu Feng condensed array patterns from nothing and secretly completed an array around the Magma Purgatory and the Yi Huo Yang Dou.
• Ye Fan gave Lu Feng a pill made from Mu Yuan Sea King Ginseng, instantly restoring the energy he had spent on the array.
• As the Yi Huo Yang Dou completed its breakthrough, Ye Fan and Tang Yuan attacked, but the beast repelled Tang Yuan’s palm and countered Ye Fan’s silver needles with its spines.
• Lu Feng used Heavenly Sound of Terror to stun the Yi Huo Yang Dou, and his array raised sand and tornadoes that blocked the beast’s escape.
• Lu Feng infused the Raging Sand Tornadoes with Extreme Yang Breath and struck the Yi Huo Yang Dou with a flaming sword as Miao Qiuyun realized the array contained multiple grand formations.

Lu Feng battled Yi Huo Yang Dou and stopped it from using a fiery lotus seed to recover, but its desperate self-destruction forced him to bind the blast with the Extreme Yang Breath. He saved the others from the immediate explosion but became trapped in the formation, leaving Jiang Ruoyun, Ye Fan, and Tang Yuan believing he was doomed.

• Lu Feng blocked Yi Huo Yang Dou's fireball with the Profound Origin Shield and Water Scale Art, then struck it with Flame Flying Birds.
• Lu Feng stopped Yi Huo Yang Dou from reaching the blood-red lotus seed and attacked it with Flowing Flame Needles, but it began to self-destruct.
• Lu Feng redirected the out-of-control Flowing Flame Needles, injuring himself, as Yi Huo Yang Dou hurled itself toward the Extreme Yang region to trigger a devastating blast.
• Tang Yuan shouted for Lu Feng to run while Lu Feng charged toward the lava region and used a formation to bind Yi Huo Yang Dou's self-destruction with the Yang Breath.
• Yi Huo Yang Dou's body and soul were destroyed, but Lu Feng became entangled in the formation and unable to escape; Jiang Ruoyun sobbed as Ye Fan and Tang Yuan watched in shock.

Lu Feng risked absorbing the Extreme Yang Qi around him to escape the formation’s deadly force and force a breakthrough into the Earth Soul Realm. A jade-green leaf from the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree briefly saved him, but after it was consumed, a far stronger, strangely harmonious Extreme Yang Qi enveloped his Soul Plate.

• Lu Feng began refining the Extreme Yang Qi, enduring severe pain as he forced his Five Elements Profound Qi into his Soul Plate.
• Lu Feng’s body neared collapse under the tyrannical Yang breath while Jiang Ruoyun, Tang Yuan, and Ye Fan watched in despair.
• A jade-green leaf carrying the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree’s Source Aura appeared and soothed Lu Feng, letting him form a thread of primordial Yang Qi and merge the Five Types of Profound Qi into his Soul Plate.
• The Extreme Yang Qi overwhelmed and consumed the leaf, then surged into Lu Feng with an unexpected affinity.
• Lu Feng sensed an immensely powerful primordial Yang Qi surrounding his Soul Plate and wondered whether he had achieved a breakthrough.

Lu Feng survived his breakthrough to the Earth Soul Realm and forged an extraordinarily powerful Yang Breath, but Ye Fan warned that it could make balancing his cultivation with Yin Breath difficult. The group found a possible way to help Tang Yuan refine the Yi Huo Yang Dou Beast Pill, and Lu Feng began harvesting Wrathful Fire Red Lotuses from the Extremely Yang region.

• Lu Feng regained control of the chaotic grand formation, drew the beast pill to him, and reassured Jiang Ruoyun after his breakthrough.
• Ye Fan and Tang Yuan reasoned that Lu Feng's new Yang Breath might prevent him from absorbing Heaven and Earth Yin Breath and leave him at a cultivation bottleneck.
• Lu Feng dismissed the idea of cutting down the Heaven Yin Camphor Tree and turned the group's attention to helping Tang Yuan refine the beast pill.
• Ye Fan proposed using Wrathful Fire Red Lotus seeds to help Tang Yuan withstand the pill's dangerous energy, and Tang Yuan agreed to risk the attempt.
• Lu Feng revealed that more than ten Wrathful Fire Red Lotuses grew in the Extremely Yang region and began drawing them out.

Lu Feng harvested seven Wrathful Fire Red Lotuses, and Ye Fan condensed their seeds to help Tang Yuan refine the Yi Huo Yang Dou Beast Pill. When Tang Yuan’s Soul Plate came under threat, Lu Feng used the powers of Qiong Gou and Xi He to force the Five Elements qi inward, leaving Tang Yuan’s Soul Plate engulfed by the Beast Pill energy.

• Lu Feng used his Source Aura of yang to safely harvest seven Wrathful Fire Red Lotuses, which Ye Fan took from him.
• Ye Fan slowly condensed lotus seeds while preserving the lotuses’ roots and stems, but Cheng Huang suddenly stole and swallowed the first seed.
• With Jiang Ruoyun and Miao Qiuyun guarding against another theft, Ye Fan condensed two seeds that helped shield Tang Yuan as Lu Feng guided in the Beast Pill energy.
• Tang Yuan struggled to draw the Five Elements qi into his Soul Plate, and Ye Fan’s attempt to strengthen the Beast Pill energy nearly burned apart Tang Yuan’s meridians.
• Lu Feng released the remaining Beast Pill energy, then used the powers of Qiong Gou and Xi He to bind Tang Yuan’s Soul Plate and provoke the Yi Huo Yang Dou energy into forcing the Five Elements qi inward.
• Tang Yuan spat out blood as the Five Elements qi entered his Soul Plate, which the surging Yi Huo Yang Dou energy then completely engulfed.